2023 Oscar Update: Final Predictions
It’s been a long road to get here, filled with so many twists and turns along the way
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Hunter Friesen
- Jan 24
2023 Oscar Nominations Winners and Losers
Now that the dust has settled (for now), let's break down who the big winners and losers were on the day
Hunter Friesen
- Jan 22
2023 Oscar Update: Final Nomination Predictions
It's finally time!
Hunter Friesen
- Jan 17
What If... Best Picture Was Expanded to a Strict-10 System in 2009?
What films would have taken those final spots in the years when we didn’t have ten nominees?
Hunter Friesen
- Jan 14
My Personal 2023 Academy Awards
The only true way to close out a year is by celebrating all the good things that came out of it.
Hunter Friesen
- Jan 8
Golden Globe Award Predictions
After a one-year hiatus, the Golden Globes are returning to television to potentially deliver their trademarked not-your-usual winners.
Hunter Friesen
- Dec 27, 2022
2023 Oscar Update: Critics' Choice and Oscar Shortlists
We’ve now reached the calm before the storm of the awards season.
Hunter Friesen
- Dec 13, 2022
2023 Oscar Update: Precursor Season is in Full Swing
We’ve finally reached the juiciest part of the season
Hunter Friesen
- Dec 11, 2022
Golden Globe Nomination Predictions
I’ll be doing a dive into the above-the-line categories, giving predictions and analysis on who will likely show up.
Hunter Friesen
- Nov 29, 2022
2023 Oscar Update: Box Office Booms and Busts, Gothams, Release Date Shifts, and Spirit Awards
There has been a steady stream of happenings that may help or hurt the Oscar chances for several contenders.
Hunter Friesen
- Nov 22, 2022
What If... Kate Winslet won Best Lead Actress for Titanic?
What if Winslet was able to go the distance and win Best Lead Actress for Titanic back in 1997?
Hunter Friesen
- Nov 15, 2022
2023 Oscar Update: AFI Fest, Babylon Reactions, Critics Choice Documentary, and European Film Awards
Welcome to an ongoing series where I cover the 2022/2023 Oscar season. On a biweekly basis on Tuesdays, I will update my Oscar...
Hunter Friesen
- Nov 7, 2022
What If... Best Picture Was Expanded to 10 Nominees Starting in 2000?
Let’s look back at previous Best Picture lineups and predict the five other films that would have been nominated
Hunter Friesen
- Oct 31, 2022
2023 Oscar Update: Babylon, Documentary Race, Gothams, and Specialty Box Office
This time of year is always strange, as we’re out of the fall festivals phase, but not quite into the precursor awards phase
Hunter Friesen
- Oct 18, 2022
2023 Oscar Predictions Update: NYFF and LFF Solidify the Race
We’ve gotten word on three potentially big contenders in Till, She Said, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Hunter Friesen
- Oct 10, 2022
What If... Best Popular Film became a real category at the Oscars?
Let’s predict who would have been nominated, and which “lucky” film would have been declared the winner
Hunter Friesen
- Oct 3, 2022
2023 Oscar Predictions Update: Michelle Williams Crashes the Party
In a cruel twist of fate, the biggest bombshell of the Oscar season dropped only a day after I posted my previous update.
Hunter Friesen
- Sep 27, 2022
What If... Martin Scorsese & Raging Bull beat Robert Redford & Ordinary People?
Let's go down that alternative timeline and investigate how future Oscar races would be changed because of this.
Hunter Friesen
- Sep 20, 2022
2023 Oscar Predictions Update: Conclusion of the Fall Festivals
The Oscar race has tightened up quite a bit now that the fall festival trio of the Venice, Telluride, and TIFF have all wrapped up.
Hunter Friesen
- Sep 7, 2022
2023 Oscar Predictions Update: Midway through the Fall Festivals
Oscar season is fully upon us with the rush of the fall festival trio of the Venice, Telluride, and Toronto.
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